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To: Brumar89 who wrote (276760)	11/29/2023 10:50:55 AM
From: koan	2 Recommendations Recommended By abuelita denizen48 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355979

I never said that! You have to make it vulgar and try and make me look like a bad guy, don't you!! When you can't attack the facts, attack the person! You think: "how can I get back at koan", he said something i don't like and hurt my feelings." For all of history, people like you have stood in the way of civilization and human decency with their small mindedness. For much of history during the DARK AGES They burned people at the stake and tortured them for voicing opinions that went against the church and killed women as witches for the same reason. And you are acting like that right now. The great philosopher Montaigne once said:" the older I get the less i fear to say what is on my mind". And greats like Mark Twain had his daughter release his best work AFTER he died for fear of people like you! I'll be 82 in a week and no longer fear people like you who would try and shut up people who tell the truth. < Stupid Indians, believing in the Great Spirit, sez koan

To: Brumar89 who wrote (276760)	11/29/2023 10:57:06 AM
From: abuelita	2 Recommendations Recommended By denizen48 ontherancocas Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355979

What a silly immature comment to make.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (276760)	11/29/2023 11:40:48 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355979

Which Indians were that? The didn't have a monoculture.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (276760)	11/29/2023 3:29:44 PM
From: epicure	3 Recommendations Recommended By alanballow GPS Info Jeff Hayden Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355979

One can be biased against religions and yet see human beings as human beings- despite their foolish superstitious beliefs. Knowing Koan, I would guess that sums him up. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. Blaise Pascal- of course cults, which are just another kind of religion, whether centered around a man or an idea (or both!) also do the same kind of harm. I can look at Rosalyn Carter, or great Catholic art- and admire the human hand that created good works, but still despise the need for superstition- since it is untouched by facts and science and untestable and can literally take you anywhere- like to the land of the antivaxxers, or down the road to witch killings, the Inquisition (400 years of Catholic torture!) and Little Red Books. What we need to encourage is critical thinking and religion, alas, does not encourage that. I wish it did, just like I wish it had more humanitarian values - but it doesn't. If all the religious ministered to the poor (without whacking them on the head with proselytizing) and if they followed good science wrt health and the environment, and if they didn't kill other people so damn often, and if so many religious weren't desperately trying to get in the pants of people who didn't want them there- whether by actually raping people or just raping people's rights, I'd be much less against religion. But we live in a world where all too many religious see "freedom of religion" as freedom of THEIR religion to dominate everyone else (for their own good, of course!) Blech